Margaret Snyman 72; and Griet Swart 86, had their fingers broken by 4 black attackers – but still fought back…

VANDERBIJLPARK. – Two elderly Afrikaner residents of an old-age home, Mrs Margaret Snyman, 72 and her friend Mrs Griet Swart, 86, were attacked outside at 4pm outside their retirement residency complex by four young black men who had amazingly enough, first signed their names in the register of the guard-house of the heavily-protected, gated community of Herfsoord …

When the two Afrikaans women returned from their shopping trip at 4pm at Mrs Swart's cottage, a vehicle stopped behind them, four black men jumped out and tackled the two old women, trying to rip off their jewellery. Mrs Swart, who was driving, wasn't having this and smacked the two black men attacking her with her kierie (walking stick). They then threatened to shoot her butd she shouted at them: “What are you waiting for?” The witnesses who told the local newspaper of the incident said the the old lady continued defending herself so fiercely that one of the other men assaulting her friend in the passenger seat rushed to help the other two deal with Mrs Swart. One of the attackers then broke her finger to rip off her ring, as they also did with her friend. The angry women were taken to the Emfuleni Medi-Clinic for treatment and trauma treatment. Herfsoord chairman Fred van Rensburg also confirmed the attack. He said the four attackers had actually registered in the security gate's identity register telling the guard that they were fetching one of their employees. "This has never happened here before and we have tightened our security measures,' he said. Mrs Snyman also had her handbag stolen about a month earlier - and it is believed that the same crime-gang. The lo9cal police said they are 'investigating'. http://www.vaalweekblad.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3206:-rower-breek-bejaarde-se-finger&catid=1:warm-nuus&Itemid=27